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He sent for his horse and mounted and rode across the intervening space at a breakneck gallop that he could barely stop in time to save himself from knocking the colonel over. A second later he was in Ruth's arms. "I thought you were dead when I saw Shaitan!" he said. He was nearly sobbing. "No, Mahommed Khan rode him," she answered, and she made no pretense about not sobbing.
Never again could I have held up my head had you been slain while I ran. And that shaitan of a camel he stirred himself. By the Prophet, I must kill an older one to make a feast for my men." The news that her lover was safe restored the sparkle to Irene's eyes and the color to her wan cheeks. Fenshawe, indeed, had not given her the full measure of Abdur Kad'r's breathless recital.
Indeed, his golden rule was the Arabic maxim, Agitel lil Shaitan Hurry is the Devil's so, in the flirtations which were the serious business of his life, he always let his fish hook themselves, just exerting himself enough to play them afterward.
Marzak lingered with his father after Oliver had taken his leave, and presently they were joined there in the courtyard by Fenzileh this woman who had brought, said many, the Frankish ways of Shaitan into Algiers. Early on the morrow so early that scarce had the Shehad been recited came Biskaine-el-Borak to the Basha.
In the name of Shaitan, let us be rid of her; set her ashore as he demands, as the price of peace between us and him, and in the security of that peace let him be strangled when we come again to our moorings in Algiers. It is the sure way the sure way!" Asad turned at last to look into that handsome eager face. For a moment he was at a loss; then he had recourse to sophistry.
He had evidently raised a lid. If there were a devil inside, now was its time, for he sniffed thus did the sewing-machines of the bazar smell. He would clean that shaitan. He slipped off his jacket, and plunged it into the box's mouth.
There was a bow from that individual, and Ibrahim went on about his master and lord feeling now, of all times in his life, how painful it was that he, the learned young Hakim, could not thank his highness in words for the protection given to him when he was pursued by those degenerate sons of Shaitan.
I then got a big armful of shavings from a carpenter's bench which was close by, put them under the bed and set fire to them. As soon as the sham invalid felt the heat, he peeped over the edge of the blanket; and when he saw the smoke and flame leaping up round him, he threw the blanket from him, sprang from the bed exclaiming "Beiman shaitan!"
Suddenly they caught sight of the crocodile, stopped and pointed to it and began to talk excitedly. One of the local peasants ran back shouting. The rest hurried down for a closer view of the reptile. A chorus of wonder rose from them as they stood round it. The Mahommedan camel-driver exclaimed in Hindustani: "Ahré, bhai! Kiya janwar! Pukka shaitan! What an animal!
That done, I should have set about intercepting the Spanish galley, and never fear but that by Allah's favour I should have succeeded." "By the horns of Shaitan," swore Marzak, thrusting himself forward, "he is the very father and mother of lies. Wilt thou explain this desire to be rid of a wife thou hadst but wed?" he demanded. "Ay," growled Asad. "Canst answer that?"
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